{"id":2353942,"date":"2024-10-11T19:46:01","date_gmt":"2024-10-11T23:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/obama-criticized-by-black-leaders-over-lecture-on-harris-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-10-11T19:47:55","modified_gmt":"2024-10-11T23:47:55","slug":"obama-criticized-by-black-leaders-over-lecture-on-harris-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/obama-criticized-by-black-leaders-over-lecture-on-harris-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama criticized by black leaders over lecture on Harris &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fobama-criticized-by-black-leaders-over-lecture-on-harris-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2353942&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Former \u200bPresident Barack Obama faced criticism from various African American \u200dleaders after he urged <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/anaylsis-more-than-half-of-joe-bidens-twitter-followers-are-fake-and-were-just-created-in-january\/\" title=\"Anaylsis: More Than Half Of Joe Biden\u2019s Twitter Followers Are FAKE and Were Just Created in January\">young black men<\/a> to\u200d support Vice\u200b President Kamala Harris. During an event \u2062in \u2064Pittsburgh, \u2063he expressed disappointment over\u200b black men&#8217;s \u200chesitancy to vote for\u2063 Harris, asserting that their\u2064 support should not be influenced solely by her gender \u200dor ethnicity. He emphasized that it was unacceptable for them to\u2064 consider voting for Donald Trump, suggesting that such a choice stemmed from an unfounded resistance to female leadership.<\/p>\n<p>In response, prominent \u2064figures like C.J. Pearson,\u2064 head\u200d of \u2063the Republican National Committee\u2019s\u200d Youth Advisory Council, and former Ohio state senator Nina Turner voiced their disapproval. Pearson articulated that he\u2064 would vote for Trump and criticized Obama&#8217;s stance as patronizing, arguing that each individual\u2019s voting decision\u200b should be respected. Turner also pointed out that singling out black men in \u2064this context was inappropriate, asserting that their voting patterns \u200dare quite similar to those of black\u200b women, and demanded that other \u200bidentity groups receive \u200dequal\u200c scrutiny.<\/p>\n<p>Former Republican state representative \u200bVernon\u200d Jones echoed these sentiments, suggesting that Obama&#8217;s comments \u2064belittled black men&#8217;s \u200bability to make informed voting decisions that \u2064consider their personal and economic interests. Obama&#8217;s remarks \u2062have\u200c sparked a broader conversation about the dynamics\u2064 of race,\u200d gender, and political loyalty within the African American community.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Obama criticized by black leaders over lecture on Harris enthusiasm<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1833757\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>After former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/barack-obama\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Barack Obama<\/a> rebuked black men for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/3185500\/obama-black-men-choosing-trump-harris-not-acceptable\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>hesitating<\/a> to support Vice President Kamala Harris, he&rsquo;s receiving backlash from African American leaders.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>From the Generation Z Republican who heads the Republican National Committee&rsquo;s Youth Advisory Council to the Democratic national co-chairwoman of Bernie Sanders&rsquo;s 2020 presidential campaign, Obama&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Acyn\/status\/1844545484255535262\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>stern words<\/a> to a group of young black men during a Pittsburgh appearance Thursday haven&rsquo;t quite gotten the response he was looking for. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I think that my ancestors fought far too hard for my right to vote in this country, for me to support someone just because they look like me, especially when that person who looks like me doesn&rsquo;t give a damn about me,&rdquo;&nbsp;C.J. Pearson, who heads the RNC&rsquo;s Youth Advisory Council, said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/thecjpearson\/status\/1844730429623996512\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>video<\/a> posted to X.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">My name is CJ Pearson. I&rsquo;m 22 years old. And in 25 days, I&rsquo;ll be joining millions of other young black men and voting for Donald J. Trump! <\/p>\n<p>And we don&rsquo;t give a damn about what Barack Obama has to say about it. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tKzupKL0N1\">pic.twitter.com\/tKzupKL0N1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; CJ Pearson (@thecjpearson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thecjpearson\/status\/1844730429623996512?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 11, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p>His comments came after Obama urged young black men to vote for Harris because she is &ldquo;somebody who grew up like you, knows you, went to college with you, understands the struggles and pain and joy that comes from those experiences.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Obama told black men that considering a vote for former President Donald Trump was &ldquo;not acceptable&rdquo; as he said part of their hesitancy was because they &ldquo;just aren&rsquo;t feeling the idea of having a woman as president.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Former Ohio state Sen. Nina Turner, who was a Democratic delegate for Obama in 2008 and 2012 and served as the national co-chair of Sanders&rsquo;s 2020 presidential campaign, also criticized the Democratic elder&rsquo;s statements during a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ninaturner\/status\/1844751542060044484\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>CNN interview<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Why are black men being belittled in ways that no other voting group [is]?&rdquo; Turner questioned. &ldquo;Now, a lot of love for former President Obama, but for him to single out black men is wrong.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Her comments responded to Obama&rsquo;s &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Acyn\/status\/1844545484255535262\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>lecture<\/a>&rdquo; to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dems-panicking-lower-black-voter-turnout-will-eviscerate-their-path-to-victory-in-november\/\" title=\"Dems Panicking Lower Black Voter Turnout Will &quot;Eviscerate&quot; Their Path to Victory in November\">black male voters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;You&rsquo;re thinking about sitting out or supporting somebody [in former President Donald Trump] who has a history of denigrating you because you think that&rsquo;s a sign of strength because that&rsquo;s what being a man is? Putting women down?&rdquo; Obama said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Black men and Black women do not vote much differently, it&rsquo;s wrong to single out Black men when Black men are the most loyal male voting block for Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s patronizing and wrong. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2OXmq9q1TW\">pic.twitter.com\/2OXmq9q1TW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Nina Turner (@ninaturner) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ninaturner\/status\/1844751542060044484?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 11, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p>Turner questioned the legitimacy of Obama&rsquo;s argument, saying: &ldquo;Some of the black men that I have talked to have their reasons why they want to vote a different way. And even if some of us may not like that, we have to respect it.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;So unless President Barack Obama is going to go out and lecture every other group of men from other identity groups, my message for Democrats is, don&rsquo;t bring it here to black men who, by and large, don&rsquo;t vote much differently from black women,&rdquo; she added.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Former Republican Georgia state Rep. Vernon Jones also chimed in, arguing that Obama&rsquo;s comments treated black men as if &ldquo;we are too stupid, that we can&rsquo;t vote our self-interest &mdash; what&rsquo;s best for us, our pocketbook, our families. As if we&rsquo;ve been immune to the past three-and-a-half years, as if we don&rsquo;t know that gas prices have been higher under Kamala Harris, food prices higher under Kamala Harris, interest rates or home mortgages higher under Kamala Harris, and runaway borders under Kamala Harris.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/VernonForGA\/status\/1844747092561948946\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>video<\/a> posted to X, Vernon said that while Obama &ldquo;meant a lot to black people,&rdquo; he didn&rsquo;t &ldquo;do anything for black people.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BarackObama?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@BarackObama<\/a> should be ashamed for berating, rebuking and scolding Black men, because they won&rsquo;t vote for Madam Lock Up A Brother&hellip;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KamalaHarris?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@KamalaHarris<\/a>. As if we are too stupid to vote our interest and what best for ourselves and our families. <\/p>\n<p>BO, you owe every Black man in America&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2WXvqpPcTp\">pic.twitter.com\/2WXvqpPcTp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Vernon Jones (@VernonForGA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VernonForGA\/status\/1844747092561948946?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 11, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;And for him to want to come down from his mansion in Martha&rsquo;s Vineyard and tell black men how we should vote, really? You don&rsquo;t even live in Chicago anymore. You left your black community, Barack Obama, and you want to tell us how to vote? We&rsquo;re not having that,&rdquo; he said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Obama has begun ramping up outreach to voters in battleground states as Harris&rsquo;s campaign has seen<span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/presidential\/3182647\/black-voters-sour-harris-pivotal-pennsylvania-county\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>cracks<\/a> in support from the <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/robsmithonline\/status\/1844763933963419747\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>black community<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In states such as Pennsylvania, which will be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/live-blog-posts\/harris-redirects-money-to-philadelphia-after-concerns-about-black-voter-outreach\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>critical<\/a> to determining the winner of the 2024 presidential election, one black voter recently said he was backing Trump because Democrats &ldquo;don&rsquo;t offer anything to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/black-voters-souring-on-harris-in-pivotal-pennsylvania-county-despite-outreach-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Black voters souring on Harris in pivotal Pennsylvania county despite outreach - Washington Examiner\">straight black male voters<\/a>.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1833757\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1833757\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obama faces backlash from black leaders over comments on Harris<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3142,"featured_media":2353943,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/BO.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[42851,7375,32438,5315,32076],"class_list":["post-2353942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-black-leaders","tag-criticism","tag-kamala-harris","tag-obama","tag-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/BO.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2353942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2353942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2353942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2353943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2353942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2353942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2353942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}